Eyes on the Prize A Force More Powerful Freedom Riders
Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Spouse
James Bevel
(m. 1961; div. 1968)
Children
2
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2022) Freedom Award
Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.
Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters (Nashville);[1] the Freedom Riders, who desegregated interstate travel;[2] co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); and co-initiating the Alabama Voting Rights Project and working on the Selma Voting Rights Movement. This helped gain Congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which authorized the federal government to oversee and enforce state practices to ensure that African Americans and other minorities were not prevented from registering and voting.
In July 2022, Nash was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden.[3]
^Olson, Lynne (2001). Freedom's Daughters : The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York : Scribner. ISBN 9780684850122.
^Arsenault, Raymond (2006). Freedom Riders. Oxford University Press.
^"Denzel Washington, Simone Biles to Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom". The Hollywood Reporter. July 2022. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement...
the comedy-drama Dear White People (2014), and as civil rights activist DianeNash in Ava DuVernay's historical drama Selma (2014). She gained mainstream...
Shannon Sr., and Reese. Three of SCLC's main organizers – James Bevel, DianeNash, and James Orange – had already been working on Bevel's Alabama Voting...
for the committee and its field projects were Fisk University student DianeNash, Tennessee State student Marion Barry, and American Baptist Theological...
Catch You". In 2000, Nash sang the song "Need to Be Next to You" for the movie Bounce. Written by Diane Warren, it became Nash's first solo single. After...
to house them on campus in secret at St Michael's Hall, a dormitory. DianeNash, a Nashville college student who was a leader of the Nashville Student...
Lafayette, John Lewis, DianeNash, C.T. Vivian and others, Bevel participated in the Nashville Sit-In Movement organized by Nash, whom he would later marry...
Evers, who had missed her flight. The tribute introduced Daisy Bates, DianeNash, Prince E. Lee, Rosa Parks, and Gloria Richardson. Following that, speakers...
became known as "Bloody Sunday" — horrified the nation. King, Bevel, DianeNash and others called on clergy and people of conscience to support the black...
activist; James Lawson, the revered "guru" of nonviolent theory and tactics; DianeNash, an articulate and intrepid public champion of justice; Bob Moses, pioneer...
Martin Luther King Jr. She also mentored many emerging activists, such as DianeNash, Stokely Carmichael, and Bob Moses, as leaders in the Student Nonviolent...
in Parchman Penitentiary. May 17 – Nashville students, coordinated by DianeNash, John Lewis, and James Bevel of the Nashville Student Movement, take up...
bus destroyed, they flew to New Orleans instead of finishing the ride. DianeNash and other members of the Nashville Student Movement and SNCC quickly recruited...
Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956) is an American songwriter. She has won an Academy Honorary Award, Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe...
Carmichael was one of the original SNCC freedom riders of 1961 under DianeNash's leadership. He became a major voting rights activist in Mississippi and...
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on the Freedom Ride because of the violence, Lewis and fellow activist DianeNash arranged for Nashville students from Fisk and other colleges to take it...
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direct many of the strategies of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, included DianeNash, Bernard Lafayette, James Bevel, John Lewis, C. T. Vivian, Jim Zwerg,...
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